Mine detail: Royal Mountain King Mine

Previously called 'Wilbur WombleGold KnollSkyrocketSnowstormMcCartyDublin PropertyHodson FaultButcher ShopLillianPine Log'

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Location

Lat / long: 37.9978, -120.68685

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Arsenic, Lead, Iron, Zinc, Copper, Antimony
Ore: Electrum, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue: Quartz, Ankerite, Calcite, Sericite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Arsenopyrite, Hematite, Goethite
Orebody form: Tabular; lens
Discovery year: 1851

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Deposit type: Hydrothermal stockwork; hydrothermal vein and replacement
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:Copper Hill Volcanics, Salt Springs Slate
Host type:Greenstone,Slate
Associated type:Serpentinite
Structure:Hodson Fault, Hilltop Fault, Littlejohns Fault Zone, McCarty Ranch Fault Zone, Bear Mountains Fault Zone
Tectonic:Magmatic arc
Alteration processes:Carbonate; ankerite, quartz, sericite, calcite, pyrite, mariposite Oxidation; hematite, goethite, limonite

References

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Reference{Deposit:: Barry, T.F., 1993, Structure and tectonics of the Bear Mountains fault zone and western Foothills terrane between Lake Don Pedro and Lake McSwain, central Sierra Nevada: M.S. thesis, San Jose State University, 56 p.}{Deposit:: Behrman, P.S., 1978, Pre-Callovian rocks, west of the Melones Fault Zone, central Sierra Nevada foothills, in Howell, D.G. and McDougall, K.A., editors, Mesozoic paleogeography of the western United States: Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium 2, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, p. 303-310.}{Deposit:: Berger, B.R., 1987, Descriptive model of low-sulfide au-quartz veins, in Cox, D.P and Singer, D.A, editors, Mineral deposit models: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1693, p. 239.}{Deposit:: Burchfiel, B.C. and others, 1992, Tectonic overview of the Cordilleran orogen in the western United States, in Burchfiel, B.C. and others, editors, The Cordilleran Orogen: Conterminous U.S.: Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, v. G-3. p. 407-479.}{Deposit:: Chaffee, M.A. and Hill, R.H., 1989, Soil geochemistry of Mother Lode-type gold deposits in the Hodson mining district, central California, U. S. A.: Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 32, p. 53-55.}{Deposit:: Chaffee, M.A. and Sutley, S.J., 1994, Analytical results, mineralogical data, and distributions of anomalies for elements and minerals in three Mother Lode-type gold deposits, Hodson Mining District, Calaveras County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-640-A, 216 p.}{Deposit:: Clark, L.D., 1964, Stratigraphy and structure of part of the western Sierra Nevada metamophic belt, California:}{Deposit:: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 410, 70 p.}{Deposit:: Clark, L.D., 1970, Geology of the San Andreas 15-minute Quadrangle, Calaveras County, California: California Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin 195, 23 p.}{Deposit:: Clark, L.D., 1976, Stratigraphy of the north half of the westen Sierra Nevada Metamophic Belt: U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 923, 26 p.}{Deposit:: Clark, W.B., 1970, Gold districts of California: California Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin 193, 186 p.}{Deposit:: Clark , W.B. and Lydon, P.A., 1962, Mines and mineral resources of Calaveras County, California: California Division of Mines and Geology County Report 2, 217 p.}{Deposit:: Day, H.W., 1992, Tectonic setting and metamorphism of the Sierra Nevada, California: in Schiffman, P. and Wagner, D. L., editors, Field guide to the geology and metamorphism of the Franciscan Complex and Western Metamorphic Belt of northern California, p. 12-28.}{Deposit:: Day, H.W. and others, 1985, Structure and tectonics of the northern Sierra Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 96, p. 436-450.}{Deposit:: Edelman, S.H. and others, 1989, Structure across a Mesozoic ocean-continent suture zone in the northern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Special Paper, v. 224, p. 1-56.}{Deposit:: Edelman, S.H. and Sharp, W.H., 1989, Terranes, early faults, and pre-Late Jurassic amalgamation of the western Sierra Nevada metamorphic Belt, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, p. 1420-1433.}{Deposit:: Engebretson, D.C. and others, 1985, Relative motions between oceanic and continental plates in the Pacific basin: Geological Society of America Special Paper 206, 59 p.}{Deposit:: Ernst, W.G., 1983, Phanerzoic continental accretion and metamorphic evolution of northern and central California: Tectonophysics, v. 100, p. 287-320.}{Deposit:: Fuller, W.P. and others, 1996, Madam Felix?s gold: the story of the Madam Felix Mining District, Calaveras County, California: Calaveras Historical Society and Foothill Resources, Ltd., 166 p.}{Deposit:: Gefell, M.J. and others, 1989, Ductile and brittle shear sense for the ?Melones Fault Zone?, northern Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 21, no. 5, p. 83.}{Deposit:: Graymer, R.W., 1992, Structural evolution of the central part of the Foothills Terrane, Sierra Nevada, California: Unpublished Ph.D dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 173 p.}{Deposit:: Graymer, R.W., 1997, Geologic history of the Placerville Belt, in Jones, D.L. and Lawler, D., editors, Northern Sierra Nevada region geological field trip guidebook: Northern California Geological Society, October 11-12, 1997.}{Deposit:: Graymer, R.W. and Jones, D.L., 1994, Tectonic implications of radiolarian cherts from the Placerville Belt, Sierra Nevada Foothills, California: Nevadan-age continental growth by accretion of multiple terranes: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 106, p. 531-540.}{Deposit:: Graymer, R.W. and Jones, D.L., 1997, Stratigraphic and structural significance of new 40Ar/ 39Ar dates from the Placerville Belt, Sierra Nevada Foothills, California, in Jones, D.L. and Lawler, D., editors, Northern Sierra Nevada region geological field trip guidebook: Northern California Geological Society, October 11-12, 1997.}{Deposit:: Ingersoll, R.V. and Schweickert, R.A., 1986, A plate-tectonic model for Late Jurassic ophiolite genesis, Nevadan orogeny and forearc initiation, northern California: Tectonics: v. 50, p. 901-912.}{Deposit:: Julihn, C.E. and Horton, F.W., 1938, Mines of the southern Mother Lode region, Part I - Calaveras County: U.S. Bureau of Mines Bulletin 413, 140 p.}{Deposit:: King, D.A., 1986, Controls of gold mineralization in the southern portion of the Hodson Mining District, west Mother Lode Gold Belt: Unpublished Master?s thesis, University of Montana, 60 p.}{Deposit:: Kuhl, T.O., 1990, The Royal-Mountain King project, Calaveras County, California, in Landefield, L.A. and Snow, G., editors, Yosemite and the Mother Lode Gold Belt: geology, tectonics, and the evolution of hydrothermal fluids in the Sierra Nevada of California: Pacific Section, AAPG Volume and Guidebook, p. 155-170.}{Deposit:: Landefeld, L.A., 1990, The geology of the Mother Lode Gold Belt, Foothills Metamorphic Belt, Sierra Nevada, California, in Landefield, L.A. and Snow, G., editors, Yosemite and the Mother Lode Gold Belt: geology, tectonics, and the evolution of hydrothermal fluids in the Sierra Nevada of California: Pacific Section, AAPG Volume and Guidebook, p. 117-124.}{Deposit:: Logan, C.A. and Franke, H., 1936, Calaveras County: California Journal of Mines and Geology, v. 32, p. 285-287.}{Deposit:: Logan, C.A., 1925, Calaveras County: California State Mining Bureau 21st Report of the State Mineralogist, p. 155-156.}{Deposit:: Miller, R.B. and Paterson, S.R., 1991, Geology and tectonic evolution of the Bear Mountains Fault Zone, central Sierra Nevada , California: Tectonics, v. 10, p. 995-1006.}{Deposit:: Moores, E.M. and Day, H.W., 1984, An overthrust model for the Sierra Nevada: Geology, v. 12, p. 416-419.}{Deposit:: Newton, M.C., 1986, The southern part of the Bear Mountains fault zone, Foothills terrane, western Sierra Nevada, California: Geologic Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 18, p. 164.}{Deposit:: Newton, M.C., 1990a, Structural control of gold mineralization in the southern Mother Lode region, in Seedorf, E., editor, Geology and ore deposits of the Sierra Nevada and foothills: Mary Harrison Prospect, Royal Mountain King Mine, Spanish Mine: Geological Society of Nevada Special Publication No. 11, p. 84-92.}{Deposit:: Newton, M.C., 1990b, Tectonostratigraphic history of the southern Foothills terrane: Ph.D dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, 203 p.}{Deposit:: Paterson, S.R. and others, 1987, Post-Nevadan deformation along the Bear Mountains fault zone: implications for the Foothills terrane, central Sierra Nevada, California: Geology, v. 15, p. 513-516.}{Deposit:: Paterson, S.R. and Wainger, L., 1991, Strains and structures asociated with a terrane bounding stretching fault: the Melones fault zone, central Sierra Nevada, California: Tectonophysics, v. 194, p. 69-90.}{Deposit:: Saleeby, J.B., 1981, Ocean floor accretion and volcano-plutonic arc evolution of the Mesozoic Sierra Nevada, California, in Ernst, W.G., editor, Geotectonic development of California: Rubey Volume 1, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, p. 132-181.}{Deposit:: Saleeby, J.B., 1992, Petrotectonic and paleogeographic setting of U.S. Cordilleran ophiolites, in Burchfiel, B.C. and others, editors, The Cordilleran Orogen: Conterminous U.S.: Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, v. G-3. p. 653-682.}{Deposit:: Saleeby, J.B. and others, 1989, Isotpoic systematics of Pb/U (zircon) and 40-Ar/39-Ar (biotite-hornblende) from rocks of the central Foothills terrane, Sierra Nevada, California: Geologic Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, p. 1481-1492.}{Deposit:: Schweickert, R.A. and others, 1988, Deformational and metamorphic history of Paleozoic and Mesozoic basement terranes in the western Sierra Nevada metamorphic belt, in Ernst, W.G., editor, Metamorphism and crustal evolution of the western United States: Rubey Volume VII, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, p. 789-820.}{Deposit:: Schweickert, R.A. and others, 1999, Accretionary tectonics of the western Sierra Nevada metamorphic belt, in Wagner, D.L. and Graham, S.A., editors, Geologic field trips in northern California: California Division of Mines and Geology Special Publication 119, p. 33-79.}{Deposit:: Sharp, W.H., 1988, Pre-Cretaceous crustal evolution in the Sierra Nevada region, in: Ernst, W.G., editor, Metamorphism and crustal evolution of the western United States: Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, p. 824-864.}{Deposit:: Taylor, G.C. and others, 1993, Mineral land classification of the San Andreas 15-minute Quadrangle, Calaveras County, California: California Division of Mines and Geology Special Report 169, 77 p.}{Deposit:: Tobisch, O.T. and others, 1989, Nature and timing of deformation in the the Foothills terrane, central Sierra Nevada, California: its bearing on orogenesis: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 101, p. 401-413.}{Deposit:: Wagner, D.L. and others, 1981, Geologic map of the Sacramento quadrangle, California: California Division of Mines and Geology Regional Map Series Map 1A, scale 1:250,000.}{Deposit:: Wolf, M.B. and Saleeby, J.B., 1995, Late Jurassic dike swarms in the southwestern Sierra Nevada Foothills Terrane, California: implications for the Nevadan Orogeny and North American Plate motion, in Miller, D.M. and Busby, C., editors, Jurassic magmatism and tectonics of the North American Cordillera: Geological Society of America Special Paper 299, p. 203-228.}{Deposit:: Hershey, O.H., 1933, Geologic report on the Royal Mine: Unpublished report, Hershey and White Consulting Engineers, 17 p. (CDMG Library, Sacramento).}{Deposit:: Kuhl, T.O. and Garmoe, W.J. , 1989, Geology of the Royal-Mountain King Mine Hodson District, Calaveras County, California: Unpublished paper presented at Society of Mining Engineers annual meeting, 11 p.}{Deposit:: Lechner, M.J., 1988, Royal Mountain King Mine Project: Unpublished report for Meridian Gold Company, 15 p.}{Deposit:: Lechner, M.J. and Kuhl, T., 1990, Geology of the Royal Mountain King Mine: Unpublished report presented at the 96th Annual Northwest Mining Association Meeting, 19 p.}
ReporterFuller, Michael S. (Higgins, Chris T. ), Schruben, Paul G.